[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus INTRODUCTION 123/154
He was a local preacher in the Wesleyan connection while he was a slave, and was liberated by his master, without remuneration, at the request of the British Conference, who wished to employ him as an itinerant.
He is highly esteemed both for his natural talents and general literary acquisitions and moral worth.
The Conference have recently called him to England to act as an agent in that country, to procure funds for educational and religious purposes in these islands. MEETING OF WESLEYAN MISSIONARIES. As we were present at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan missionaries for this district, we gained much information concerning the object of our mission, as there were about twenty missionaries, mostly from Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St.Christophers, Anguilla, and Tortola. Not a few of them were men of superior acquirements, who had sacrificed ease and popular applause at home, to minister to the outcast and oppressed.
They are the devoted friends of the black man.
It was soul-cheering to hear them rejoice over the abolition of slavery.
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